We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments
are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the
Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying
its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

US Declaration of Independence - 1776

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form
of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application
of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened),
against domestic Violence.

Article IV, Section 4 United
States Constitution

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited
by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Tenth Ammendment Bill
of Rights

No individual has any authority, or right to attempt to exercise any, over the rest
of the human species, however he may be supposed to surpass them in wisdom and sagacity.

Gad Hitchcock, “An Election Sermon,” 1774

If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which
he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there
was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish
to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary.
Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary
fathers...

Calvin Coolidge 30th
President of The United States

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose
amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two
thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which,
in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution,
when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions
in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed
by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one
thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth
clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its
consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.